Smart Choices - Healthy Food and Drink Supply Strategy for ...
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<strong>Food</strong> safety<br />
The Australian Dietary Guidelines now include<br />
a guideline about food safety in recognition of<br />
the importance of being vigilant when preparing<br />
<strong>and</strong> serving food. Schools, including the<br />
tuckshop, have a responsibility to maintain safe<br />
food-h<strong>and</strong>ling practices <strong>and</strong> high st<strong>and</strong>ards<br />
of hygiene. This is essential to avoid food<br />
poisoning <strong>and</strong> ensure students have access to<br />
high-quality, safe <strong>and</strong> suitable food.<br />
Many resources are available to assist in<br />
meeting safe food-h<strong>and</strong>ling requirements <strong>and</strong><br />
are listed on pages 24–25.<br />
The Australian Guide to <strong>Healthy</strong> Eating<br />
The Australian Guide to <strong>Healthy</strong> Eating provides<br />
in<strong>for</strong>mation about the amounts <strong>and</strong> kinds of<br />
food we need each day from the five basic food<br />
groups to obtain sufficient nutrients <strong>for</strong> good<br />
health <strong>and</strong> wellbeing <strong>and</strong> is consistent with the<br />
Australian Dietary Guidelines.<br />
The Australian Guide to <strong>Healthy</strong> Eating, Commonwealth<br />
Copyright 1998, is reproduced with permission of the Australian<br />
Government Department of Health <strong>and</strong> Ageing, 2005.<br />
The basic five food groups<br />
While the Australian Dietary Guidelines<br />
provide the general framework <strong>for</strong> how <strong>and</strong><br />
what should be eaten, the AGTHE provides<br />
more specific advice regarding the number of<br />
serves needed from each of the basic five food<br />
groups.<br />
The AGTHE uses a plate model, divided into<br />
different sized segments, to indicate the<br />
proportions of food from each of the five food<br />
groups that we should be eating <strong>for</strong> good<br />
health. <strong>Food</strong>s are grouped together because<br />
they share a similar range of nutrients. Over<br />
three-quarters of food intake should come from<br />
three major food groups – the breads, cereals,<br />
rice, pasta <strong>and</strong> noodles group, the vegetables<br />
<strong>and</strong> legumes group, <strong>and</strong> the fruit group.<br />
Extra foods<br />
Some foods do not fit into the five food groups<br />
because they are not essential to provide the<br />
nutrients needed. They are regarded as ‘extra’<br />
foods <strong>and</strong> include biscuits, cakes, desserts,<br />
pastries, soft drinks, high-fat snack items such<br />
as crisps, pies, pasties, sausage rolls <strong>and</strong> other<br />
takeaways, lollies <strong>and</strong> chocolates.<br />
Most of these foods are high in fat (particularly<br />
saturated fat), <strong>and</strong>/or salt <strong>and</strong>/or added sugar<br />
<strong>and</strong> <strong>for</strong> these reasons it is recommended their<br />
intake is limited. When eaten only occasionally<br />
or in small serves they can add variety to the<br />
diet without replacing the healthier foods<br />
needed each day.<br />
How many serves?<br />
The number of serves of different foods<br />
children <strong>and</strong> young people should eat on<br />
average each day depends on an individual’s<br />
body size <strong>and</strong> activity level.<br />
The table below provides a guide to the<br />
number of serves of each of the five food<br />
groups that children <strong>and</strong> young people should<br />
aim to eat each day. Very active children <strong>and</strong><br />
young people may need more each day than<br />
shown in the table.<br />
Children can consume up to one-third of their<br />
daily nutritional intake at school. As many<br />
children regularly purchase food from school<br />
tuckshops, it is important that tuckshops<br />
provide a wide variety of foods from the five<br />
food groups <strong>and</strong> promote <strong>and</strong> model healthy<br />
food choices.<br />
What is a serve?<br />
Recommended number of daily serves <strong>for</strong> children <strong>and</strong> young people<br />
Example serves in the table on the following<br />
page define the amount of food that equals<br />
one serve within each food group. For example,<br />
two slices of bread or one medium bread roll is<br />
equivalent to one serve. Read the table below<br />
in conjunction with the table on the following<br />
page to work out how much food from each<br />
food group to aim <strong>for</strong> each day.<br />
4–7 Years 8–11 Years 12–18 Years<br />
Cereals (including breads, rice, pasta, noodles) 5–7 6–9 5–11<br />
Vegetables, legumes 2 3 4<br />
Fruit 1 1 3<br />
Milk, yoghurt, cheese 2 2 3<br />
Lean meat, fish, poultry, nuts <strong>and</strong> legumes 1/2 1 1<br />
Extra foods (have no more than) 1–2 1–2 1–3<br />
Source: The Australian Guide to <strong>Healthy</strong> Eating, Commonwealth Department of Health <strong>and</strong> Family Services, 1998.<br />
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